Sports Specialists: The Center for Orthopedics

David Marsh, MD, Center for Orthopedics, performs a sports physical on one of the hundreds of scholastic athletes who took part in last week’s Free Sports Physicals event hosted by the Center. The physicals were performed by several area physicians, including the doctors based at The Center for Orthopedics.

Hundreds of school-age athletes, from elementary school through high school, flocked to the Center for Orthopedics last week for the sixth year of Free Sports Physicals.

Area physicians donated time for the medical portion.The orthopedic exams were performed by board certified physicians of The Center for Orthopedics. These highly-trained and skilled specialists are recognized locally, regionally and nationally, and serve as the orthopedic team of the Cleveland Gladiators and the Lake Erie Monsters.

“Student athletes are an integral part of our practice,” said Sheila Tonn-Knopf, Director of The Center for Orthopedics, located in Sheffield at I-90 and Route 254. “Our physicians are athletes themselves, and they understand the importance of having a thorough sports physical performed before participation begins. This event is our way of giving back to the community, and it just keeps growing each and every year.”

Last year, 750 athletes turned out for this complimentary event to students who are required to receive a sports physical.

The Center for Orthopedics may be reached at (440) 329-2800.

About the Center for Orthopedics

The surgeons at the Center for Orthopedics are young, highly trained, cutting-edge physicians. They have undergone advanced specialty training throughout the U.S., bringing surgical services to Northeast Ohio that virtually no one else does.

The Center for Orthopedics is one of the first practices in the U.S. to offer robotic knee replacement. Our surgeons are experts in state-of the-art surgical techniques including minimally invasive sports medicine procedures, total elbow replacement, gender-specific knee replacement, total wrist replacement, x-stop spinal surgery for spinal stenosis and even neck disc replacement.